Twenty Thousand People Contributed $10 Million on Give Miami Day

Miami has a lousy reputation when it comes to civic pride and generosity.

Thursday belied that notion.

The Miami Foundation’s Give Miami Day set a fundraising record, making it one of the most active 24-hour charitable-giving events in the nation. According to the foundation, 20,413 donors gave $10.1 million to 695 local nonprofits.

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The String Bag Project, which provides basic necessities such as toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, and school supplies, garnered the greatest number of gifts among small nonprofits, 440, while Sunset Elementary PTA collected 290, second most. (Friends of North Beach Elementary raised a whopping $76,204, to top all school nonprofits.)

Give Miami Day, now in its sixth year, has raised more than $35.7 million for local organizations specializing in areas ranging from the arts to technology.

“Miami came through for our local nonprofits like never before,” says Javier Alberto Soto, president and CEO of the Miami Foundation. “It is inspiring.

Chuck Strouse is editor in chief of Miami New Times. He has shared two Pulitzer Prizes and won dozens of other awards. He is an honors graduate of Brown University and has worked at newspapers including the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times.

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